“Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.” — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night. — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes. — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Often sit alone happy happy Thoughts somewhat far gone gone Clouds circle mountain soft soft Wind through valley swish swish Ape in… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them?… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Do I think men are complicated? People are complicated! I don't know that there is one particular aspect of men in general… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
“Our close cousins the gorillas and orangs and chimps and gibbon apes have gotten along just fine all this time while eating… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Muslims insult all other religions. The Quran is an insult to the Jews, the Christians and everyone else. It calls the Jews… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their own terms, fellow creatures with their own needs to… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“She shot him a warm smile as she stopped the car and shut off the engine. “It’s all the Planet of the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“We’re Johnny-come-latelies. We live in the cosmic boondocks. We emerged from microbes and muck. Apes are our cousins. Our thoughts and feelings… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'd have to, if on Sunday I wanted to run off with some "slack-jawed Suzy," some "invertebrate," a "post-pubescent wasteoid who imagines… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'.… — Sean Price Copy Share Image
![“Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the…” quote by Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f0b/thomas-huxley-1183_animal_perhaps-no-order-of-mammals-presents-us_3051.jpg)
![“Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my…” quote by Carl Linnaeus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/53a/carl-linnaeus-18673_animal_yet-man-does-recognise-himself-as-an-ani_1012426.jpg)
![“That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.” quote by Matt Reeves](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/323/matt-reeves-19952_apes_that-movie-war-for-the-planet-of-the-ape_2401395.jpg)
![“Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] on a real chimpanzee and I worked with Terry [Notary] on a lot of chimpanzee movement.” quote by Andy Serkis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f09/andy-serkis-1548_apes_rather-than-something-like-king-kong-whe_234956.jpg)
